Flynn

This is an action for damages for personal injuries resulting from a collision of automobiles. In a non jury trial, judgment was for the defendant. Plaintiffs appeal from the judgment.

Appellants contend that the evidence was insufficient to support the judgment.

Defendant Ralph M. Parsons Company, a corporation, is a large engineering company, with its home office in Los Angeles and several branch offices or divisions in other cities, including an electronics division in Pasadena. Defendant, Carl A. Budde, was employed, on an hourly basis at $2.60 an hour, as *182 an electronics technician in the Pasadena division where there were approximately 250 employees. It was the custom of the Parsons Company, each year from 1953 to 1961, to hold a Christmas party at a hotel in the Los Angeles area, and to extend invitations to all its employees, some of its clients, some law enforcement personnel in the area, and representatives of the state Department of Employment. The 1959 party was held at the Statler Hotel in Los Angeles. The invitation to the employees of the Pasadena division was extended by posting a typewritten invitation on the bulletin boards at the Pasadena division. The…